St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-12
SUMMER FILTRATION.
The Adventure Of a Thoughtless
Girl.

hours. There has been an accident Oh
the line beyond, and we can not get
through untiltoward evening""
There was no help for it, and the
grumbling passengers got out of the
carriage with various expressions of an
nOyance.
30, Mollie, what shall we do here
this afternoon?'
my dear Nina, We'll have some good
fun! We're in a strange place, with
nobody to play prOpriety and we'll make
tins day long to be remembered. I'm
going to get up Irritation with some
body and you must do the same. We
can have rare fun if you only will"
Nina does not fall i'll with this plan
very. heartily, but proposes to go to a
hotel for dinner, and they start i'm
mediately.
Mollie is small, fair, bewitching Nina
tall, dark and rather stately looking
just opposite in appearance and dis
position, yet the best of friends.
''There's large park in this place, for
I've heard Cousin Will speak of it,
the mirror preparing for the afternoon
find it?'
just the thing" aSSented MOllie.
'sWe'Il have fun there if anywhere"
They have no difficulty in finding the
park, and very pretty place it is. They
find rustic seat and sit down ''to await
the coming man." as Mollie expressed it.
'.Oh, here comes two of the nobbieSt
fellows, she whispered presently.
Now, Nina, you must do just as do"
"Mollie, please be careful! Remem-
ber'' -
But they are very near now, and au-
daciOus Mollie smiles and slightly bows.
Both gentlemen lift their hats, pass
on a few steps. and turn back.
''Mollie, don't be reckless!"
s'Nina, don't be prudish!''
Foolish Nina hates to be called
prudiSh; besides, she is catching the in
lection, and when the gentlemen pause
on their return she SuStainS her part re-
markedly well for an amateur. 1t is
only for once, and no one will know of
it, she reasons.
A little distance back of them Nina
notices gentleman reclining on rustic
bench. His face attracts her; strong,
handsome face with piercing black eyes
that might look tender if their owner so
Willed, Nina imagined. He must have
seen the whole performance, and there
is a half smile of contempt ON the fine
SCb lips WHICH, N OUStINeS.
''Mollie," she finds chance to whis-
per aside, ''let'S get away from these
men; we have carried it far enough. Do
you see that gentleman over there who
is watching uS?"
"POOh! he is only wishing he had the
same opportunity;" and Mollie goes ON
with the fun
Finally the two gallants propose to go
for refreshments at the restaurant near,
and even Nellie heSitates.
Il think we must return to the hotel
now," Nina says, quickly.
She has learned from their converSa-
ton that they are not the sort of COM
pany she would like to appear in and
she determines to take the matter in her
own hands.
They insist on accompanying them to
the hotel, and Nina, growing more dis
quieted every moment, has uot the
courage to peremptorily dismiss them
AS they leave the park Nina cannot for
bear glancing at the handsome gentle
man behind them, and she inStinctively
feels that he deSpiSeS them all.
A year later Nina Black is at the
N hotel with party of friends,
Mollie Gordon not being one of the
number. Nina is at window observ-
ing the new arrivals. Suddenly she
starts. Surely there is the face which,
having once seen, she has never for
gotten. 1t is the gentleman who wit
messed that foolish Irritation in the park
at Newton. The same piercing eyes,
the same firm-set mouth, but the con-
OgniZe her? she wonders. She fervently
hopes not, for she is heartily ashamed of
her conduct on that occasion.
She dresses herself with unusual care
that evening and smiles triumphantly
as she takes a parting glance in the
mirror; the reflection of the tall, willowy
form in pale-pink draperieS is evidently
satisfactory.
She meets Philip Cameron and is in
troduced few moments after entering
the drawing.room. Nina almost loses
her self-poSSeSSion as the black eyes
rest on her so keenly; but evidently
he does not recognize her, ami in few
minutes they are chatting in a friendly
manner.
And as the music strikes up they
are soon gliding through the lighted
rooms.
They stroll out in the grounds after
the waltz is over,
"Your face seems very familiar to
me-" he says, muSingly, looking down
into her dark, expressive eyes, as they
stand in the moonlight. "Can it be
possible We have ever met before to-
night?'
She. laughs lightly, perhaps little
guiltily, for she remembers it all so
well.
"Once- having observed face never
forget it," he goes on, without waiting
for a reply: For instance, l met a
gentleman in restaurant a few weeks
nn h0 sod
whom [ had seen before, but I could not
determine where. This morning | sud
denly remembered. that he was in
train with me two years ago, and occu-
pied seat opposite"
"You would make a good deteetive,''
she says, feeling that it is only ques-
ton of time when he will remember
that unfortunate afternoon. "Why
should | care?" she thinks impatiently.
sit is no more than hundreds of girls do
every day and think nothing of it."
But she does care nevertheless. 1t is
the skeleton at the feast of good things
which follows. Picnics, drives, walks.
with dancing in the evening to bewild-
ering music. Nina enjoys it all so thor
oughly with Philip Cameron constantly
by her side.
A sultry morning. and Nina is loung-
ing in one of the little summer houses
that dot the lawn. Two gentlemen
come up and take possession of rustic
bench outside; the ivy forms a complete
screen and Nina is not aware of their
proximity until the sound of voices warn
her of it.
They are evidently discussing some
lady, for one of them is saying,'' Il
met her first on one of the boats going
to the SeaShore. She bowed to me as a
means of getting up Irritation, and of
course responded. We were together
all the afternoon, and Ihave called
on her several times since. She''-
There, Joe, have heard enough"
Nina starts at the sound of a we'll
known voice and rises to leave the sum-
mer-house, but the next sentence trans